On Sep 15, 2005, at 12:07 PM, R. A. Cantrell wrote:
Listers,
Did a tread on persistent trash just go through here? I
have two
items in the trash that will not go away. Not for Empty Trash, Empty
Trash+Option, Secure Empty Trash, nor for sudo rm -r ~/.Trash/*
Whazzup?
you forgot a parameter in the last command, f to force the removal:
sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*
though I'm paranoid, and avoid wildcards like the plague around rm -rf.
I'd go into the trash folder and rm -rf items by name explicitly.
Your command will work as advertised, it's just a habit you MOST
definitely don't want to get into, because if you do, one day it WILL
bite you on the ass.
You WIll do 'sudo rm -rf *' in the wrong directory and while you will
live to regret it, your data will not.
I know two sysadmins do did this, as root, in the root directory. Not
pretty. One managed to kill the process in time to save the data
directories.
--
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